The social outlines of economic situation of medical services consumer in province

The article deals with the results of the custom longitudinal descriptive random sampling study of the social economic characteristics of 2077 patients in ambulatory polyclinic and hospital establishments of Arkhangelskaya Vologodskaya oblast and Republic of Komi in February-April 2007. The comprehensive type of the dependency of incomes of provincial consumers of medical services is established. In the group of consumers of medical services with the income lower than living wage dominate persons of 60 years and older? With lower education level, non-working and dwelling in rural locality.

patient, medical service, income